Speaker: Nell Tharpe
Facilitator: Kate Frith
Abstract:
In this presentation, new ideas for teaching suturing, assessment and approximation of birth tears are presented. Learning the complex skill set for suturing birth tears takes time and lots of practice. Faculty and preceptors can support new learners with skill development activities and competencies that build these skills a little at a time from the ground up. Objective assessment tools help learners know where they are in their learning, and aid faculty in identifying skills that need more work and providing learners with activities to improve their skills. Becoming proficient at suturing takes 3-7 years. While we want to prevent birth tears as much as possible, let’s give new midwives the tools to keep refining their skills so every person who receives midwifery care gets the care they need and the best opportunity to heal well. Come listen to Nell’s story about new ways of teaching suturing developed after decades of working on these skills with midwives.
Recording: https://youtu.be/hKMUZyIKJZk
Speaker:Jennifer Moffitt
Facilitator: Caitlin Goodwin
Abstract:
Bringing the practices of mindfulness to our patients and ourselves can significantly impact our patients’ relationship to pain and fear in labor, birth, and life. In this presentation, participants will have an opportunity to experience a mindfulness practice and learn ways to implement mindfulness in midwifery, including for childbirth and parenting. Participants will be exposed to how mindfulness meditation can decrease stress during pregnancy and beyond and hear about mindfulness skills for working through pain and fear in childbirth. Further, participants will learn how to encourage mindfulness life skills for parenting with wisdom, kindness, and connection from the moments of birth, as well as how mindfulness skills may be implemented as a way to disrupt intergenerational patterns of suffering. In particular, this presentation will offer concrete ways to bring mindfulness to the contractions of labor, and to the space in between the contractions of labor. The potential for separating “pain” from “suffering” using mindfulness practices will be explored, which can be applied to labor, and of course, to life. We will examine the research around mindfulness-based interventions, the relationship between perinatal stress and outcomes, and the potential that mindfulness strategies have for reducing health disparities.
Recording: https://youtu.be/9VIUNKd_WoY
